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Animal Cognition: The Mental Lives of Animals [Mīkstie vāki]

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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, height x width x depth: 234x155x12 mm, weight: 352 g, illustrations
  • Izdošanas datums: 11-Oct-2001
  • Izdevniecība: Palgrave Macmillan
  • ISBN-10: 0333923960
  • ISBN-13: 9780333923962
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, height x width x depth: 234x155x12 mm, weight: 352 g, illustrations
  • Izdošanas datums: 11-Oct-2001
  • Izdevniecība: Palgrave Macmillan
  • ISBN-10: 0333923960
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Following a history of animal study in the West, animal minds are probed in terms of consciousness, recognition of cause and effect, physical perception, abstract cognition, memory, reasoning, and communication and language. Each chapter is followed by a brief list of suggested readings and websites. A large part of the book is devoted to explaining how scientists get animals to perform and how scientists arrive at conclusions from both controlled performances and from partially or uncontrolled field observation. The book is suitable for both general reading and as an introductory undergraduate textbook. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Covering a wide range of key topics, from reasoning and communication to sensation and complex problem-solving, this engagingly-written text presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary research on animal cognition. Written for anyone with an interest in animal cognition, but without a background in animal behavior, it endeavors to explain what makes animals tick.

Covering a wide range of key topics, from reasoning and communication to sensation and complex problem-solving, this engagingly-written text presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary research on animal cognition. Written for anyone with an interest in animal cognition, but without a background in animal behavior, it endeavors to explain what makes animals tick.

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'This book communicates the intriguing facts about animal cognition, and how fascinating it can be to investigate animal minds, without talking down to the reader, exaggerating animals' mental capacities, or implying that outstanding questions have been answered...A very unusual combination.' - Professor Cecilia Heyes, University College London 'Wynne writes clearly, engages the reader well, and gives lots of examples and anecdotes but does not sacrifice rigour.' - Professor Michael Corballis, University of Auckland 'Extremely readable, particularly for undergraduates...the first book of its kind that is well-suited for an advanced undergraduate course rather than for a graduate course.' - Professor Tom Zentall, University of Kentucky 'An excellent introduction to animal cognition...Coverage is impressively thorough...Wynne has a delightfully engaging, informal style. It is clear that the author enjoys what he is writing about, and this enjoyment is readily conveyed to the reader.' - Professor John Pearce, Cardiff University

List of Figures
x
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
The Mental Lives of Animals: Introduction
1(14)
On minds, thought and intelligence in animals
3(1)
Historical background: Darwin, Wallace and the minds of beasts
4(5)
Two cautionary tales
9(3)
Clever Hans: the horse with the intelligence of a 14-year-old child
9(3)
Lloyd Morgan's canon -- the most awesome weapon in animal psychology
12(1)
Now and the future
12(1)
Further reading
13(1)
Websites
13(2)
Other Minds, Other Matters
15(18)
Consciousness in mind
15(3)
Imitation -- the sincerest form of flattery
18(5)
Is that me? Studies on mirror recognition
23(3)
Do you see what I see?
26(3)
Conclusions
29(1)
Further reading
30(1)
Websites
31(2)
Detecting Cause and Effect
33(22)
Pavlovian conditioning
35(9)
Outline
35(2)
Pavlovian conditioning through the animal kingdom
37(4)
What is learned in Pavlovian conditioning?
41(3)
Instrumental conditioning
44(6)
Outline
44(1)
Instrumental conditioning through the animal kingdom
45(4)
What is learnt in instrumental conditioning?
49(1)
Conclusions
50(2)
Further reading
52(1)
Websites
53(2)
Other Ways of Seeing the World -- I: Physical Dimensions
55(26)
Vision
56(7)
The pigeon's eye view of the world -- a case study in animal vision
59(1)
Patterns and pictures
60(3)
Smell
63(2)
Hearing
65(2)
Magnetic sensitivity
67(1)
Electrical sense
68(1)
Sensitivity to air pressure
69(1)
Navigation
69(8)
Pigeon homing
69(1)
The sun compass
69(1)
Magnetic compass
70(1)
Odour maps
71(5)
Bees foraging
76(1)
Conclusions
77(2)
Further reading
79(1)
Websites
79(2)
Other Ways of Seeing the World -- II: Abstract Dimensions
81(34)
Object permanence
82(5)
Concept learning
87(9)
Same--different
87(2)
Stimulus equivalence
89(1)
Perceptual concepts
90(6)
Time
96(5)
Learning about the time of day
96(2)
Learning about short time intervals
98(3)
Numbers
101(9)
Relative number judgments: more or less
102(1)
Absolute number
103(2)
Counting
105(5)
Conclusions
110(1)
Further reading
111(1)
Websites
112(3)
Remembering
115(22)
Simple memories
116(2)
Short-term memory
118(8)
Capacity
121(1)
Duration
121(2)
Serial order effects
123(1)
What causes forgetting?
124(2)
Long-term memory
126(6)
Food-storing birds
126(1)
Marsh tits and chickadees
127(1)
Nutcrackers
128(2)
Pigeons
130(2)
Implicit and explicit memory
132(1)
Conclusions
133(1)
Further reading
134(1)
Websites
134(3)
Reasoning
137(24)
Spatial reasoning
137(8)
Tool use
145(2)
Insight
147(5)
Reasoning by analogy
152(1)
Series learning -- I: transitive inference
153(3)
Series learning -- II: linear ordering
156(2)
Conclusions
158(1)
Further reading
159(1)
Websites
159(2)
Communication and Language
161(20)
Ape language studies
165(6)
Words
165(3)
Sentences
168(3)
Language training with other species
171(2)
Communicating with dolphins
171(2)
Irene Pepperberg and Alex
173(1)
Animal communication in the wild
173(4)
Vervet monkeys of Kenya
173(2)
Dolphins
175(1)
The dance of the honey-bee
176(1)
Conclusions
177(1)
Further reading
178(1)
Websites
179(2)
Conclusions and Comparisons
181(11)
Brain size
181(4)
Learning set
185(2)
Are there really differences between species?
187(4)
Further reading
191(1)
References 192(11)
Index 203


CLIVE WYNNE is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Florida. He was educated at University College London and Edinburgh University, and has since undertaken research in Germany, the US and Australia. He is Consulting Editor of the journal Animal Learning and Behavior and reviewer for Behavioural and Brain Sciences, Cognition, European Journal of Neuroscience, International Journal of Comparative Psychology, and many others.